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The United States on March 9, 1921

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding R · since Mar 4, 1921
Senate
33 R · 30 D
63 senators · 67th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
6 R · 3 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
19 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $18.31
in today's dollars
Public debt
$26.0B
as of Jul 1, 1920
1921-03-09/executiveThe administration
President Warren Gamaliel Harding R
since Mar 4, 1921
Vice President Calvin Coolidge R
Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty R
since Mar 4, 1921
Postmaster General William Harrison Hays R
since Mar 5, 1921
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall R
since Mar 5, 1921
Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes R
since Mar 5, 1921
Secretary of War John W. Weeks R
since Mar 5, 1921
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover R
since Mar 5, 1921
Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby R
since Mar 6, 1921
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon R
since Mar 9, 1921
1921-03-09/congress67th Congress
Senate · 33 R · 30 D
James Thomas Heflin (Democrat, AL)Joseph Taylor Robinson (Democrat, AR)Henry Fountain Ashurst (Democrat, AZ)Josiah Oliver Wolcott (Democrat, DE)Park Trammell (Democrat, FL)William Julius Harris (Democrat, GA)Augustus Owsley Stanley (Democrat, KY)Joseph Eugene Ransdell (Democrat, LA)David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat, MA)James Alexander Reed (Democrat, MO)John Sharp Williams (Democrat, MS)Byron Patton Harrison (Democrat, MS)Henry Lee Myers (Democrat, MT)Thomas James Walsh (Democrat, MT)Furnifold McLendel Simmons (Democrat, NC)Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (Democrat, NE)Andrieus Aristieus Jones (Democrat, NM)Key Pittman (Democrat, NV)Atlee Pomerene (Democrat, OH)Robert Latham Owen (Democrat, OK)Peter Goelet Gerry (Democrat, RI)Nathaniel Barksdale Dial (Democrat, SC)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)John Knight Shields (Democrat, TN)Charles Allen Culberson (Democrat, TX)Morris Sheppard (Democrat, TX)William Henry King (Democrat, UT)Claude Augustus Swanson (Democrat, VA)Carter Glass (Democrat, VA)John Benjamin Kendrick (Democrat, WY)Hiram Warren Johnson (Republican, CA)Lawrence Cowle Phipps (Republican, CO)George Payne McLean (Republican, CT)Lewis Heisler Ball (Republican, DE)William Squire Kenyon (Republican, IA)William Edgar Borah (Republican, ID)Joseph Medill McCormick (Republican, IL)Harry Stewart New (Republican, IN)Arthur Capper (Republican, KS)Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican, MA)Joseph Irvin France (Republican, MD)Frederick Hale (Republican, ME)Bert Manfred Fernald (Republican, ME)Charles Elroy Townsend (Republican, MI)Truman Handy Newberry (Republican, MI)Frank Billings Kellogg (Republican, MN)Knute Nelson (Republican, MN)Porter James McCumber (Republican, ND)George William Norris (Republican, NE)Henry Wilder Keyes (Republican, NH)Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (Republican, NJ)Walter Evans Edge (Republican, NJ)William Musgrave Calder (Republican, NY)Charles Linza McNary (Republican, OR)Philander Chase Knox (Republican, PA)LeBaron Bradford Colt (Republican, RI)Thomas Sterling (Republican, SD)Carroll Smalley Page (Republican, VT)Miles Poindexter (Republican, WA)Robert Marion La Follette (Republican, WI)Howard Sutherland (Republican, WV)Davis Elkins (Republican, WV)Francis Emroy Warren (Republican, WY)
House ·
1921-03-09/supreme-courtThe bench
Joseph McKenna R
Associate Justice · appointed by William McKinley · since Jan 21, 1898
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. R
Associate Justice · appointed by Theodore Roosevelt · since Dec 4, 1902
William Rufus Day R
Associate Justice · appointed by Theodore Roosevelt · since Feb 23, 1903
Edward Douglass White R
Chief Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 12, 1910
Willis Van Devanter R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Dec 16, 1910
Mahlon Pitney R
Associate Justice · appointed by William H. Taft · since Mar 13, 1912
James Clark McReynolds D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Aug 29, 1914
Louis Dembitz Brandeis D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Jun 1, 1916
John Hessin Clarke D
Associate Justice · appointed by Woodrow Wilson · since Jul 24, 1916
1921-03-09/weekWithin a week · Mar 2, 1921 – Mar 16, 1921
Warren Gamaliel Harding takes office · Mar 4, 1921
Law Patent Act of 1921 (Nolan Act)
Mar 3, 1921
Law Federal Water Power Act Amendment (Jones-Esch Act)
Mar 3, 1921
Ruling United States v. Diamond Coal & Coke Company
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 323
Ruling Williams v. United States
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 336
Ruling Oregon - Washington Railroad & Navigation Company v. United States
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 339
Ruling Western Pacific Railroad Company v. United States
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 349
Ruling Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur v. Cauble
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 356
Ruling Payne v. New Mexico
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 367
Ruling Winton v. Amos
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 373
Ruling Pierce v. United States
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 398
Ruling United States ex rel. Milwaukee Social Democratic Publishing Company v. Burleson
Mar 7, 1921 · 255 U.S. 407
Ruling Payne v. United States ex rel. Newton
Mar 14, 1921 · 255 U.S. 438

Each office is shown as it stood at the end of the day. Cabinet records come from Wikidata and have gaps for some historical offices.